I apologize for this digression. I learned tonight that my cousin Michael died of cancer a few hours ago. Apparently, his cancer started a few years ago as colon cancer and by the time he really pursued doing anything about it a few months ago, it had spread to the point that there were no [...]
Gosh, I mention Blair Hornstine on my blog and suddenly, this blog is all over the place. I’ve been quoted on the Russian Legs blog (which, by the way, doesn’t work in Netscape on a Mac). Someone scrolled through six pages of search results in Google to get here. AT&T’s Worldnet search returns me on [...]
Microsoft has filed lawsuits against several companies and individuals who routinely spam users of their e-mail services, like Hotmail and MSN. Washington state’s anti-spam law allows Internet service providers to take action against such companies.
From the June 17th Boston Herald: “[U.S. District Court Judge Lewis A. Kaplan's] decision serves as a green light for lawyers to engage PR consultants to deal with the mass-media frenzy that accompanies some cases, without risk of having to turn over notes from client meetings or testify in front of grand juries about their [...]
Jim Meier, former librarian at the Sporting News in St. Louis, Missouri, and my mentor from my first conference in Philadelphia in 2000, pointed out to me today that my blog is listed on a handout Miami Herald researcher Liz Donovan distributed at the Internet Update session on Monday, June 9, at 7:30 am. I [...]
DAYPOP has me listed in the top ten on their results for the search term “plagiarism.” I’m not plagiarizing. It’s the postings I’ve written recently about the journalists who do that have me ranked there. Like other search engines, DAYPOP links to the front page, not the permalink or the date.
The Special Libraries Association Annual Conference is going really well. I’m having a great time learning about all sorts of issues related to news librarianship, networking with other librarians, and seeing a little bit of New York. If you’re interested in reading more about the conference, I posted an update to the News Division blog [...]
Like many special librarians–that’s “special” as in working in a library setting other than a traditional public or school library setting, not “special” as in differently abled or mentally challenged–I will be at the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference Saturday through Thursday and will most likely not be blogging in this space. I might make [...]
Blair Hornstine, who has been in the news recently for filing a law suit against her high school because she wants to be the only valedictorian in her graduating class, seems to have plagiarized while writing for the New Jersey Courier-Post. Hornstine addresses her errors in her column on Tuesday. She writes: “I was incorrect [...]
Gary Price just posted this item on Newslib: According to the OMB Watcher Web site, a provision allowing the National Security Agency (NSA) to exempt “operational files” from disclosure, search, and review under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) just passed Congress. The provision expands the zone of secrecy surrounding NSA operations.
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